Day 409 of 1000

I received a call from Kelly yesterday right after she entered the Engineering Career Fair at NCSU.  She was a little discouraged because there were so many students talking to all of the hundreds of companies looking for employees.  They were all in their suits with very impressive resumes and it seemed pretty hard to compete.  I told her to have fun–if nothing came out of it, that would be OK.  Worst case, the practice of talking about herself in search for a job would help her in the future.  She said OK, but still seemed pretty tentative.

I did not hear from her again for another three hours.  She got in some lines to talk with Intel, Caterpiller, and some smaller companies.  She was positiviely invigorated when she finally called.  Lots of people were interested in her resume, there were lots of internship, and it looks like she will be considered by a lot of people.  One guy came up and tapped on her shoulder when she was leaving the conference hall and said he noticed she was a statistics major and would she be interested in applying for an internship with their company.  He promised her an interview.

Kelly had such a good time, she thought she would give it another shot today.  She was all dressed up when she left the house.  The very cool part of the whole process was that she has a completely different vision of why she is in school after this fair.  She is fired up to get great grades, do an internship, and get on with life in a job.